Quietly Yours

We're joined by David Grigg to discuss "My Son John," from November 1948.

We discuss "Short Order," from Suspense, originally broadcast August 18, 1945, three days after Japanese Emperor Hirihoto announced the Japanese surrender in World War Two.

Matt's audio sucks recording two days before moving across country without any gear, but otherwise we're back at it. From November of 1948, it's "One For the Book."

From November of 1948.

We're back after a brief hiatus! First up is "The Shadow People," from The Hall of Fantasy, 1952. It's a spooky one.Listen to surviving episodes of The Hall of Fantasy here.

We discuss arguably one of the three most important episodes of the entire show's run, "Adam and the Darkest Day," from early November 1948.Check out the Mindwebs archive here.

1948's Halloween episode.Apologies for the audio on this one as we were away from our usual setup.

We're joined by Pete Lutz of the Narada Radio Company to discuss Good Ghost, which was originally broadcast on October 24th, 1948. Later in the episode we hear clips from Narada's recreation of the episode, which you can listen to here.Check out the Narada Radio Company here.

We're so excited to welcome back return guest Dr. Leslie McMurtry, Lecturer in Radio Studies at the University of Salford, Manchester to discuss our FIRST non-American and second (?) non-golden age program: Fear on Four. The episode is "The Snowman Killing," originally broadcast January 3rd, 1988.

From October 1948

From October of 1948, it's "Beezer's Cellar"

October 1948. Some spooky stuff. Etcetera 

It's our first ever live episode! On his long drive back across the country moving from Providence, RI to Portland, OR, Matt stopped by Dave's in Minnesota to record a live, in person episode discussing Lucille Fletcher's "The Hitchhiker."We'll be back to Quiet Please next week but until then, don't stop for anyone with drops of fresh rain on their shoulders... 

Happy Holidays! For your present this year we got you a bonus episode discussing the Vincent Price classic, "Three Skeleton Key," from Escape

Another apocalypse, from September of 1948.

A politician receives a BONE CHILLING phone call (don't worry, his boy is not a box). From September of 1948.

Wyllis Cooper wrings 30 minutes of mystery out of the series' theme song: Cesar Franck's "Symphony in D Minor." From September of 1948.

We have a two-fer today as we cover a missing episode, "Motive," as well as a retelling of the story of Cain and Abel in "The Third Man's Story."With Paul Knierim and Kelly Prosen

We couldn't quit the Halloween spirit so we're giving you a bonus episode to close out the spooky season. From May of 1958, it's "The Ghost to Ghost Matter" from Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

For our 2022 Halloween special we are joined by Professors Neil Verma (Northwestern University), Richard Hand (University of East Anglia), and Leslie McMurtry (University of Salford Manchester) to discuss the Suspense classic, "The House in Cypress Canyon."

We have an extra-long episode diving into one of our favorite episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. From 1977, it's "The Ninth Volume." Climate change, Peak Oil, The End of the World, we've got it all here.

We discuss "The Little Man Who Wasn't There" from the 1945 season of The Shadow, written by Alfred Bester.Opening clip: Alfred Bester at the MidAmeriCon 74th World Science Fiction Convention, 1976.Outro music: "The Little Man Who Wasn't There," by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Bluebird Records, 1939

A scam for the ages, from August of 1948

From August of 1948.

In our return from a brief Summer hiatus, we discuss a listener request of "Immortal Gentleman" from Lights Out! as well as Arch Oboler's Drop Dead! LP.

On a brief break from Quiet, Please, we discuss "Universe" from Dimension X, originally aired November 26, 1950.To hear the first episode of Paul Knierim's generation ship drama, 253 Mathilde, click here.

We've finally gotten to the Mt. Everest of Quiet Please episodes--"The Thing on the Fourble Board" from August of 1948. Joining us with some pre-recorded thoughts are Quiet Please dot Org's Paul Knierim and Professor Richard Hand. Neil Verma's article can be read here: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/87824/87825/27/372

From August of 1948. Time Travel! Listener Feedback! 

We're joined by Professor Richard Hand (author, Terror on the Air!: Horror Radio in America, 1931-1952) for a discussion of "The Man Who Stole A Planet," from July of 1948.

We finally cover a listener request, this time, "The Creeper" from Molle Mystery Theater originally broadcast April 11th, 1947.

A clunker from July 1948. It's about to get better!

We discuss "Vahine Tahiti," a rendition of Mutiny on the Bounty, from July 1948.

We discuss "Let the Lilies Consider" for about five minutes before going on a very long tangent about process philosophy, metaphysics, Martin Scorsese and Catholic art, and the like. One of our favorite episodes to date!

From June 1948. Music at end from Halloween 3. 

We discuss two missing episodes from June of 1948, "Below 5th Avenue," and "One Hundred Thousand Diameters."To listen to Paul Knierim's recreation of "Below 5th Avenue," click here.To listen to Paul Knierim's recreation of "One Hundred Thousand Diameters," click here.

We discuss "The House Where I Was Born" from May of 1948.Music at the end is Matt's band, a song inspired by this episode off A Hope For Home's last album In Abstraction from Facedown Records in 2011--"The House Where You Were Born." We have a new album coming out later this year so keep your eyes peeled (info will be posted here!). A Hope For Home's music is available on all streaming services, as well as our bandcamp page (sans our label releases which we don't own the rights for) at: https://ahopeforhome.bandcamp.com/

Matt and David discuss "Gem of Purest Ray" from May, 1948.

Professor Neil Verma (Northwestern University, author of Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama) joins us yet again for a discussion of "There Are Shadows Here," from May of 1948.

April Fools! In a joking mood we're taking our first foray into radio comedy with an episode of Our Miss Brooks, joined by Kelly Prosen. It's "Mr. Boynton's Moustache," from March  of 1955.

"How Beautiful Upon the Mountain" from May 3, 1948.

Bit of a clunker this week as we discuss "Thirteen and Eight," originally broadcast April 26th, 1948.

We return to Quiet, Please with a discussion of "Clarissa," from April 19, 1948.

We're selling you a bill of goods this week with a listen to the CBS Radio Workshop's adaptation of Frederick Pohl's The Space Merchants from February, 1957.

We take a break from Quiet Please to discuss a 5-part run on one of David's favorite programs, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. From February 13-17, 1956, its "The Cui Bono Matter."Audio sample from the beginning is from a 1982 interview with Roberta Goodwin, daughter of Bob Bailey (star of Johnny Dollar), hosted by John Dunning.(note: hosting costs money! So to save space to get this episode under TWO HOURS I cut the outro music to each episode in the sequence. Purists will surely rake us over the coals but you can hear the full episodes online pretty much wherever they are posted...)

For today's discussion on 12 to 5 (originally broadcast on April 12, 1948), we are joined by Northwestern University Professor Neil Verma, author of Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama (University of Chicago Press, 2012). We discuss his concept of "audiopositioning" as well as Quiet Please in general.

We're joined by the great Bill Gray, one of the architects of the CBC's "Nightfall" radio series in the early 1980s to talk about The Porch Light. 

From April 5th, 1948, it's "I Always Marry Juliet," another classic Cosmic Visitor episode of Quiet Please

We return to Quiet, Please for our first episode of 2022. This time it's "A Night to Forget" from March 22, 1948.Audio sample from an Orson Welles appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, 1976.

Can you believe we've done this 50 times now? Matt and David do not talk about an episode of Quiet Please this time, and rather give you some behind the scenes anecdotes, general riffing on OTR, and a few rankings of our favorite QY episodes. Also stay tuned for some 2022 news at the end of the episode!Thank you so much for listening and we hope to see more of you in the coming months!

In typical Quietly Yours fashion we mark the holiday season with an incredibly depressing Dragnet classic: ".22 Rifle For Christmas"

This week we discuss a long-lost and recently rediscovered episode of Quiet Please called "Meeting at Ticonderoga," originally broadcast March 15, 1948.